[quote]MattyXL wrote:
I was just watching you explain this on the muscle and strength youtube vid…lol, Im gonna use alot of your suggestions, especially the cable fly tweak. I recently sustained an injury and many of the pushing movements are severely limited. For chest, the only thing I could do to hit my chest is flys (which I havent done in at least 5 years). That tweak you mentioned with regards to arm/hand placement with the slight incline fly was spot on! I am very front delt tri dominant with my pressing and found (like you said) getting a pretty good pump in my anterior delts but not as much activation in my chest. Thanks for this Stu.
sorry for the hijack[/quote]
Can you provide a link to this, or is it against the forum rules?
I found last night that doing Pec-Deck pulling my shoulders down and back - just like proper form for pressing - really put more emphasis on my chest and there was no shoulder soreness (until the last set) as I’ve had the past couple weeks. Figured I’d share since we’re on the subject of building a chest.[/quote]
I don’t know why but I always feel declines in my shoulders, but flat bench and dips (assuming they are wide enough) is all chest for me. I should give them another shot though.
[quote]MytchBucanan wrote:
I don’t know why but I always feel declines in my shoulders, but flat bench and dips (assuming they are wide enough) is all chest for me. I should give them another shot though.[/quote]
You could play around with angles and grip width until you find the sweet spot I guess, but if wide dips is all chest for you and doesn’t hurt your shoulders… it’s more or less the same as a decline, no?
[quote]gregron wrote:
I’m lovin all the dip love in here!
Dips with no lockout and a body lean really do blast my nips (lower chesticles)[/quote]
No doubt!
Anyone try them with forward lean AND your legs out in front of you? It’s supposed to put more emphasis on the chest, but it just felt awkward to me so I didn’t stick with it.
[quote]MytchBucanan wrote:
I don’t know why but I always feel declines in my shoulders, but flat bench and dips (assuming they are wide enough) is all chest for me. I should give them another shot though.[/quote]
You could play around with angles and grip width until you find the sweet spot I guess, but if wide dips is all chest for you and doesn’t hurt your shoulders… it’s more or less the same as a decline, no?[/quote]
Yeah pretty much. It’s hard to find dip bars that are wide enough. I have been doing mine in the squat rack and setting up the bars in a v- shape so I can dip about as wide as I would bench. It seems to work pretty well.
The decline bench in my gym has hooks that are either too high or too low for racking the bar. I guess I should try them next time I go to a different gym.
[quote]MytchBucanan wrote:
I don’t know why but I always feel declines in my shoulders, but flat bench and dips (assuming they are wide enough) is all chest for me. I should give them another shot though.[/quote]
You could play around with angles and grip width until you find the sweet spot I guess, but if wide dips is all chest for you and doesn’t hurt your shoulders… it’s more or less the same as a decline, no?[/quote]
Yeah pretty much. It’s hard to find dip bars that are wide enough. I have been doing mine in the squat rack and setting up the bars in a v- shape so I can dip about as wide as I would bench. It seems to work pretty well.
The decline bench in my gym has hooks that are either too high or too low for racking the bar. I guess I should try them next time I go to a different gym.
I didn’t mean to derail thread if I did.[/quote]
You could set up for a decline press in the squat rack, putting plates under the bench to make a shallow decline angle? I’m lucky with the decline at my gym, the angle is adjustable and the hooks are at a good height. I feel uncomfortable doing them without a good spotter though, if I fail at the lift the angle makes it very dangerous. I don’t want a Darwin Award. haha
